Hardcover, 357 pages
English language
Published Jan. 4, 2007 by Pyr.
Brasyl is a 2007 novel by British author Ian McDonald. It was nominated for the 2008 Hugo Awards in the best novel category. In 2008 it was nominated for, and made the longlist of, the £50,000 Warwick Prize for Writing. It was also nominated for the Locus Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel, and in 2009, it was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel. It won the British Science Fiction Award for best novel in 2008.
Tries to cram everything Brasil (mostly Rio) into a fast-paced cross-centuries struggle... Stronger second half as threads join together.
